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Fatah Fights To Keep Hamas Out of Mosques
Nablus, West Bank – He has been charged with no less a mission than ridding the local branch of the Palestinian religious authority of Hamas’s influence. But when a reporter arrives in his office, Hassan Hilali goes stiff. “I am only a simple man,” he apologizes, while dialing a superior to get authorization to talk….
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Yom Kippur Raid Roils Staid L.A. Neighborhood
Los Angeles – A recent incident at an Orthodox day school in one of this city’s epicenters of Jewish life is inflaming tensions in a neighborhood long plagued by ethnic controversy. On the holiest night of the Jewish calendar year, two inspectors for the City of Los Angeles Department of Building and Safety arrived unannounced…
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Holocaust Deniers Rankled by Their Standard Bearer’s Revisions
A famed Holocaust denier is revising his revisionist thinking — and the move is opening up a rift among his fellow travelers. David Irving, who was released from prison last December in Austria after being convicted of Holocaust denial, recently announced that he is rethinking his position on the fate of European Jews during World…
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‘The Israel Lobby’ Goes International
After hitting Europe earlier this month, “The Israel Lobby” is preparing for a frontal assault on the Muslim world. The controversial book by American academics Stephen Walt and John Mearsheimer, who accuse the pro-Israel lobby of hijacking American policy, hit bookstores in Europe in September and soon will be published across the Arab world and…
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Israeli Boycott Effort Deemed Illegal in Britain
Britain’s largest academic union decided this week not to go ahead with discussions about potentially boycotting Israeli universities. Last May, the country’s University and College Union voted to open up discussions about the “moral implications” of ties with Israeli institutions in light of the “denial of educational rights” to Palestinians. Last week, the union’s legal…
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Debate Over Sabbatical Year Drives Up Prices, Spurs Challenges to Chief Rabbinate
Kibbutz Be’erot Yitzhak, Israel – Debate over how to implement the biblical injunction to let the Land of Israel lie fallow every seventh year is sowing the seeds for a potential rebellion against the state’s chief rabbinate. Since Rosh Hashanah, when the most recent sabbatical — or shmita — year began, Israel’s Modern and ultra…
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Former Secretary of Defense Puts Up Mezuza After D.C. Rabbi Reaches Out
Washington – Former secretary of defense William Cohen had long had a mezuza sitting around his house, but it was only during the recent High Holy Days that he got around to putting it up on his door. Cohen grew up going to synagogue, but after being spurned by his childhood rabbi, he distanced himself…
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Gelt Complex: Jewish Sites Get Grants, Big Bucks for Methane
Jewish Sites Get Grants Jewish institutions were the primary recipients of federal grants from the Department of Homeland Security meant to help not-for-profits cope with security risks. Out of $24 million allocated this year, synagogues, Jewish community centers and other communal institutions received $19.6 million. Of the 308 not-for-profits that were awarded the grants, 251…
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Sephardic Flavors
For us Ashkenazim, getting guidance in cooking the cuisine of our ancestors is easy: We just consult one of the many Ashkenazic cookbooks in our libraries. But for Syrian Jews raised in the Sephardic tradition, finding recipes that existed outside the minds of aging Syrian women has been nearly impossible. Until now, that is. Poopa…
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Long Lost Twins, Reunited
Human beings have always been fascinated by twins. Romulus and Remus, Jacob and Esau, Mary-Kate and Ashley. We love ultrasound images of twins hugging (or punching) in utero, stories about shared secret languages, notions of twin-to-twin ESP, movies like “The Parent Trap.” (But c’mon, identical cousins? That’s crazy talk!) As children, many of us fantasized…
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McCain Slammed for Saying U.S. a "Christian Nation"
Republican presidential candidate John McCain is under fire from Jewish groups after saying the U.S. is a “Christian Nation.” In a video interview with beliefnet.com the Arizona senator said America was founded “on Christian principles” and that it is in fact a “Christian nation.” McCain, however, did add that he meant that “in the broadest…
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